Artist Studio Visit – Jaye Rhee
Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:00-2:30 pm
DOOSAN Residency New York
511 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001
Please contact AHL Foundation at 516-983-3935 or info@ahlfoundation.org
Jaye Rhee
Jaye Rhee is a video artist, raised in Korea and educated in the US. Her work explores the evasive nature of authentic desire. By focusing on the tension between “real” desire and “fake” objects of desire, as embodied by images—in the broadest sense of the word—she tangles with complicated issues such as “real fakes” and “imageless images.”
She creates “real fakes” by forthrightly showing artifice without the concealment of ambiguity. This refusal to deny the actual substance of the materials with which I make art reveals the authenticity of these faked or imaginary worlds. Consequently her artwork as a product of this “fake” process in turn becomes authentic. In other words, her work is paradoxically a fake yet genuine.
Her major projects are Cherry Blossoms (2012); Fades and Shades (2010); Bambi (2009); Polar Bear (2007); and more video installations.
Her works are part of the following institutions: High Museum of Art; Albright Knox Art Gallery; Norton Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Artist Book Collection at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, South Korea; Seoul Museum of Art; and Ssamzie Collection.
Jaye Rhee graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago for BFA and MFA. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Kobe Biennale 2007 (Japan), Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, Aljira Contemporary, Galerie Gana Beaubourg (Paris), Chicago Cultural Center and Kyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Seoul). In 2009 Rhee was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Gyeonggi Creation Center Pilot Program and participated in Palais de Tokyo Workshop Program. Her work has also been featured in Carol Becker’s essay, published in Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art by The University of California Press, and reviewed by the New York Times, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, and Art in Culture. Currently she is selected as a residency artist at the DOOSAN Residency New York.
